{"id":254785,"date":"2026-01-27T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/254785\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T22:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:00:07","slug":"satellite-stocks-surge-on-sovereign-space-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/254785\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite stocks surge on \u201csovereign space\u201d plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"css-g65o95\" href=\"https:\/\/sherwood.news\/markets\/boeing-posts-its-second-straight-quarter-of-positive-free-cash-flow-revenue\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boeing posts its second straight quarter of positive free cash flow, revenue beats estimates<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-14ve0pc\"><a class=\"inline-stock css-1iix00n\" href=\"https:\/\/robinhood.com\/us\/en\/stocks\/BA\/?source=sherwood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boeing<\/a> reported its fourth-quarter and full-year earnings before the market opened on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-14ve0pc\">Boeing posted adjusted earnings of $9.92 per share, compared to the $0.44 loss per share expected by Wall Street analysts polled by FactSet. Those earnings, however, aren\u2019t comparable to estimates because they reflect a massive gain from the close of Boeing\u2019s sale of its digital aviation assets, which the company said boosted overall earnings by $11.83 per share. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-14ve0pc\">The plane maker generated $375 million in free cash flow, its <a href=\"https:\/\/sherwood.news\/markets\/boeing-turns-cash-flow-positive-for-the-first-time-since-its-door-plug\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-uubm0\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">second straight<\/a> quarter of positive FCF following six consecutive quarters of negative results. Wall Street expected $207 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-14ve0pc\">Boeing last year saw significant recovery from its bleak 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/sherwood.news\/markets\/boeing-deliveries-jump-72-in-recovery-year-making-ground-on-rival-airbus\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-uubm0\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">improving<\/a> its commercial deliveries by 72%. The company logged nearly 1,200 plane orders in 2025, outselling European rival <a class=\"inline-stock css-1iix00n\" href=\"https:\/\/robinhood.com\/us\/en\/stocks\/EADSY\/?source=sherwood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Airbus<\/a> for the first time since 2018. Boeing\u2019s revenue climbed 57% in the fourth quarter to $23.95 billion, beating estimates of $22.6 billion. Its total backlog grew to $682 billion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-14ve0pc\">In October, US regulators <a href=\"https:\/\/sherwood.news\/markets\/boeing-climbs-as-faa-expected-to-ease-safety-check-process-speeding-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-uubm0\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">approved<\/a> an increase to the monthly cap on 737 production from 38 to 42 planes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boeing posts its second straight quarter of positive free cash flow, revenue beats estimates Boeing reported its fourth-quarter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-254785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}